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[Elliott Plack]

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On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>wrote:

> Greetings Import Community,
>
> After SOTMUS, I have decided to resurrect the import of Maryland Dept. of
> Natural Resources land boundary data. This import will take public domain
> Maryland polygon data that represents the official boundaries of state
> parks and protected areas and will bring them into OSM using a variety of
> tags. I have documented this in the link below, complete with tables,
> diagrams, examples, and a link to the data on GitHub.
>
> *Brief Summary*: Maryland has made this data public domain. The plan is
> to import this data in *manual mode* only. Local editors will examine the
> data on an individual basis and then upload it when it meets tagging
> standards. The tagging will be fairly comprehensive. We'll either use
> leisure=park or leisure=nature_reserve depending on the data dictionary
> on the wiki. We'll also use the boundary=protected scheme and I have
> written a key for each state land type and corresponding protect_classtype.
>
> *Benefits:* This data in OSM will be fantastic for basemaps, as parks and
> natural protected land boundaries are often hard to discern based solely on
> imagery. Local surveys are impractical given the immense size of some of
> these areas. Coupled with trails surveyed by other local mappers, or using
> the new Strava slide tool, the OSM map can often outperform the official
> state maps in terms of accuracy and informational content.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Parks
>
>
> https://github.com/talllguy/maryland-dnr-osm-import/tree/master/dataWGS84/DNR%20Lands%20and%20Conservation%20Easements
>
> Looking forward to any comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Elliott Plack
> http://about.me/elliottp
>
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Elliott Plack
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